The world is a never-ending cross-reference.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.

Memory is like a dog that lies down where it pleases.

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

Conversations consist for the most part of things one does not say.